Stanley Park - Panorama Insanity

[In_The_Wind]

11. My second ex husband and I moved a 66 foot steel hull sport fishing boat up the east coast.

As we neared South Carolina the coast, we blew a seal on one of our Detroit Cummings Engines. We spent two weeks dockside in Charleston getting repairs done. My husband worked for the owner. Our job was to take an old boat and make it like new again. I rented a car and spent the time as a gofer when we needed anything. As we were readying the boat to leave port a Captain we had met on one of our southern stops pulled alongside: "Ahoy Carl. Are you ready for the blow coming up the coast?" he ask.

We hadn't checked the weather on this bright sunshiny day. We were too busy putting everything that could roll away inside of a storage area. Our plan was to have a leisurely supper at a restaurant overlooking the ocean then castoff after breakfast.

What actually happened was a sunset meal at the aforementioned eatery and a midnight departure. As we reached the harbor's entrance the wind freshened. Carl headed for open sea and turned north. Just before dawn we were cutting through waves that sent spray halfway up the tuna tower. As we were in the trough the waves were well above deck on either side. We turned into the Inland Waterway as soon as we could, which was mid-morning. That's a small part of 48 hours of a Captain and his first mate before docking safely again ... on a simple job moving a boat northward to Great Kills Harbor in New York.

My job these days is to be a pilot car for oversize trucks.